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Rep. Stansbury Announces Millions in Funding Submissions for New Mexico

April 20, 2023

$53.1 million in federal Community Project Funding will help tackle pressing public safety, education, economic development, and infrastructure needs.

WASHINGTON— As communities across New Mexico face interconnected challenges with public safety, affordable housing, education and economic development, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) announced her selections for 15 Congressionally funded community projects, totaling $53.1 million, which she submitted for consideration in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2024 budget.

Rep. Stansbury chose the projects after holding hundreds of community-based meetings across New Mexico’s First Congressional District and extensive consultation with state, local, and Tribal communities since taking office. If advanced through the appropriations process, these projects will be included in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget when it is passed by the House and Senate, likely later this year.

“My number-one priority in Congress is to bring crucial federal dollars to our communities to make a difference for New Mexicans,” said Rep. Stansbury. “The projects I selected this cycle are to address urgent community needs across our District, including tackling public safety, housing, education, public health and economic development needs. These projects will invest in rural, Tribal, and metro-area communities across our district and help tackle some of our biggest challenges.”

The 15 projects have been submitted to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration, pending approval through the budget and appropriations process. Projects this year were restricted to a limited number of federal programs, and only state, local, and Tribal governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding. The House Appropriations Committee will weigh these requests alongside other submissions before ultimately selecting a limited number of projects to include in the FY 2024 funding bill. Due to funding restrictions imposed by the House Republican Majority, Rep. Stansbury referred additional projects to the offices of Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján. Once projects are approved in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and included in the federal budget, they will be subject to passage of the Budget in both Chambers of Congress before being signed into law. This process will likely take months, with the earliest final consideration of bills taking place in the fall.

Since taking office, Rep. Stansbury has secured over $28 million for 22 community funded projects in New Mexico for public safety, economic development, and other needs as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 and Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus budgets.

A summary of the 15 projects is provided below:

Projects Investing in Public Safety
New Mexico State Police DNA Lab Funding

The New Mexico Department of Public Safety will use this funding to accelerate processing of forensic DNA to address more than 1,000 non-violent cases that remain unworked and the more than 450 cases the Forensic Lab receives a year.

Requested Amount:
 $500,000

Sandoval County Sheriff Vehicles
The Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office will use this funding to replace 14 patrol, detective, and unmarked vehicles, that are unsafe or that have extremely high miles and to purchase a new surveillance camera to deter crime in public spaces.

Amount Requested:
 $1,000,000

Peralta Fire Station

The Town of Peralta will use this funding to build a new fire station. The Peralta Volunteer Fire Department, which uses an outdated and over 50-year-old building, will construct a new fire station to better serve Peralta and neighboring Valencia County communities with Fire and EMS services.
Amount Requested:
 $7,678,352

Projects Investing in Education
Ruidoso Region 9 Early Childhood Education Center

This funding will be used by the Region 9 Early Learning Cooperative to construct an early childhood center (ECE) for educational care, after-school care, and an ECE teacher training site in Ruidoso to serve families across the region. 

Amount Requested:
 $4,000,000

Pueblo of Sandia Childhood Development Center
The Pueblo of Sandia will use this funding to construct a new Child Development Center to accommodate the Pueblo’s growing number of students and retire portable classrooms. The center will also include several new facilities needed to serve students with special needs.

Amount Requested: 
$16,693,678

Albuquerque Corn Maiden Early Learning Center
This funding will be used to plan, design, construct, furnish, and equip an early childhood development center and day care for children in the Albuquerque area. Corn Maiden will provide a Pueblo- and Indigenous centered-education program for preschool-aged children.

Amount Requested:
 $2,000,000

Mescalero Apache Tribe Head Start Facility
This funding will be used to help design and construct a new Mescalero Head Start facility to provide educational opportunities for children under age five and replace current facilities, which are inadequate and require a new facility.

Amount Requested:
 $5,500,000

Projects Investing in Housing and Homelessness
Albuquerque Family Transitional Housing Project

This funding will support Saranam LLC’s project to construct a new transitional housing project to serve unhoused families in Albuquerque’s West Side and provide wrap around services as families are getting back on their feet.

Amount Requested:
 $994,950

Albuquerque YDI Youth Transitional Housing Facility
This funding will help build and renovate a transitional housing facility for at-risk youth in Albuquerque, including those who are exiting the foster care system, at risk of homelessness, and otherwise experiencing poverty and housing insecurity.

Amount Requested:
 $1,800,000

City of Albuquerque Homeless Youth Housing Navigation Campus
This funding will support the construction of a shelter and navigation center for youth experiencing homelessness in Albuquerque, in support of investments in addressing youth homelessness this last year.

Amount Requested:
 $3,000,000

Projects Investing in Community Infrastructure

Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project
This funding will be used by the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority to plan and implement an effective aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) project in support of the Water Authority’s 100-year water management strategy.

Amount Requested: 
$1,500,000

Los Lunas Corridor Water Lines
This funding will be used by the Village of Los Lunas to connect and expand water utilities into rural areas in Valencia County that do not currently have these services.

Amount Requested: 
$2,700,000

Rio Rancho Sara Road Project
The funding will be used in conjunction with the City of Rio Rancho to help design and construct improvements to Sara Road near Highway 528, which provides a critical transportation artery for those residing in the area.

Amount Requested:
 $3,240,000

Bernalillo El Zocalo-Sena Building Renovation Project
This funding will be used to help renovate the historic Sena Building in the Town of Bernalillo’s historic El Zocalo Plaza, to be used for public meetings, conferences and retreats, and other community events.

Amount Requested: 
$1,490,000

Santa Rosa Access Project
This funding will be used for walkway and road improvements in the City of Santa Rosa to widen existing access from Old Route 66 into the Blue Hole area, improve public safety, alleviate traffic incidents, and keep pedestrians safe.

Amount Requested: 
$1,066,000